As an educational body, you create, collect, and store an enormous amount of personal and private information. Shred-it helps you protect the confidential information of your students and your employees with best-in-class information protection services, such as paper shredding and electronic media destruction.
Protecting the personal identifiable information (PII) of your students, your teachers, and your administrative personnel is not only good business practice; it’s a highly regulated requirement for everyone working in the education sector. With Shred-it’s regularly scheduled document destruction service, we help you stay compliant.
Like most industries that work with private and confidential information, the education sector is heavily regulated and governed. And laws designed to protect identities, medical information, financial data, and personal privacy come with strict rules – and heavy fines for violating them. We can help you stay compliant.
Here are just a few of the key federal, state, and local information security laws that require privacy compliance:
Regulates how public bodies can collect, use, and disclose individuals’ personal information and provides individuals right to have their personal information protected by the organization holding it.
Extend the present laws of Canada that protect the privacy of individuals concerning the personal information held by a government institution. It ensures government institutions dispose of any personal information safely that accordance with guidelines.
Aims to enhance security for consumers by setting guidelines for any company that accepts, stores, processes, or transmits credit card information. The act focuses on improving payment security throughout the transaction process created by the major payment card brands.
Protects the personal data and privacy of EU citizens and applies to all companies, whether they operate in the EU or outside, that store or use any information about EU citizens.
Regulates how public bodies can collect, use, and disclose individuals’ personal information and provides individuals right to have their personal information protected by the organization holding it.
Extend the present laws of Canada that protect the privacy of individuals concerning the personal information held by a government institution. It ensures government institutions dispose of any personal information safely that accordance with guidelines.
Aims to enhance security for consumers by setting guidelines for any company that accepts, stores, processes, or transmits credit card information. The act focuses on improving payment security throughout the transaction process created by the major payment card brands.
Protects the personal data and privacy of EU citizens and applies to all companies, whether they operate in the EU or outside, that store or use any information about EU citizens.
For educational institutions, whether you are an elementary school or an internationally known university or college, it’s safe to assume that most documents you or your employees handle contain some form of confidential and sensitive information.
If you create, collect, or dispose of these types of documents, you and your organization could be at-risk for an information breach.
Shred-it protects organizations' information for their people, customers and brands. With 30 years of experience, our primary focus on document confidentiality security helps ensure your confidential information remains confidential. We offer paper, hard drive, and specialty scheduled shredding services.
With the largest shredding fleet and the largest service footprint in North America, we are where you are.
With the most NAID AAA certified mobile/on-site and plant-based facilities, we keep your information safe.
With the highest customer satisfaction among all vendors, we are 100% committed to your protection and satisfaction.
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1. Stericycle, Shred-it Data Protection Report, 2022.
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The 2022 Data Protection Report reveals critical insights on the challenges small business leaders face and recommendations to improve data security practices.